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Substitution between managers and subordinates: evidence from British football
Bridgewater, Sue; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Goodall, Amanda H. - 2009
We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being equal, managers who themselves played at a higher...
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Personalführung in der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Zeiten des demographischen Wandels: Eine Untersuchung der Wirkung altersspezifischer Führung auf die Arbeitsbeziehung von Führungs...
von Kalm, Nicolas - 2013
maintain or even enhance the employees working ability studies identified the quality of leadership. The following thesis … brings the concept of age-related leadership into focus, which deals with the individual, age-related needs of the employees …'. It examines the relationship between leaders age-related leadership behaviors and followers' perception of quality of …
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Are Japanese households financially healthy, and if so, why? A Group of Seven (G7) comparison
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2012
In this paper, I conduct an international comparison of the financial health of households using data on household wealth and indebtedness for the Group of Seven (G7) countries and show that, even though household borrowings in Japan were the highest among the G7 countries, at least until 2000,...
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Changes in beliefs and perceptions about the natural environment in the forest-Savanna transitional zone of Ghana: the influence of religion
Sarfo-Mensah, Paul; Oduro, William - 2010
Christianity and Islam. …
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Religion and Growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2024
We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology - together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...
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Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization, human capital …, emancipation, and the causes and consequences of Jewish persecution. One set of papers on Christianity studies the role of the …
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Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization, human capital …, emancipation, and the causes and consequences of Jewish persecution. One set of papers on Christianity studies the role of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270049
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The differential effects of Jesus and God on distributive behaviour
Lane, Tom - 2019
This study shows that different belief concepts within the same religion can have different effects on distributive behaviour. A dictator game experiment measures the causal effects of the concepts of God and Jesus on both the prosociality of Christians and their propensity to discriminate...
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Scriptural legitimation and the mobilisation of support for religious violence: experimental evidence across three religions and seven countries
Koopmans, Ruud; Kanol, Eylem; Stolle, Dietlind - In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47 (2021) 7, pp. 1498-1516
In their attempts to mobilise supporters and justify their actions, violent religious extremists often refer to parts of scripture that legitimize violence against supposed enemies of the faith. Accounts of religious extremism are divided on whether such references to scripture have genuine...
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Investigating Attitudes toward Those Who Leave Religion among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Believers
Kanol, Eylem; Michalowski, Ines - In: Religions 13 (2022) 8, pp. 1-20
This study investigates the determinants of negative attitudes toward individuals who leave their religion, i.e., converts and apostates, among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim believers. Drawing on the literature from the study of religion and prejudice, we identify and test the explanatory power...
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